BIGGEST FAMILY QUEST
MOTHER OF TWENTY-FOUR. LONDON, December 3. A strange dispute lias shaken the South Yorkshire coalfields, where the mining villages are arguing which is able to show the largest family. The controversy began when a miner’s wife, living at Denaby, gave birth to her nineteenth child, but at Blacker llj 11 there live side by side two families ot twenty-one eacln Another resident of the district, with seventeen children, offered to field a football team to play any other eleven brothers. Mrs Austen, of Platts Common, put everyone in the shade with twentyfour children, besides four adopted ones. One of her sons weighs 16|sionc, and a daughter weighs 1.3 stone. Mrs Austen says: “My children boat ray record. One daughter already lias twelve children, and two others have eleven each. Nevertheless, the Austens are anxiously watching a _ neighboring family which has had twins and triplets within thirteen months.
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Evening Star, Issue 19431, 14 December 1926, Page 2
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150BIGGEST FAMILY QUEST Evening Star, Issue 19431, 14 December 1926, Page 2
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